Making Maxima and the common lisp implementation play nice
Subject: Making Maxima and the common lisp implementation play nice
From: Zach
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:55:16 -0700
I don't know if I am supposed to reply to the you or the list or both, but
I'll do both.
Your disbelief in the existence of my problem has allowed me to discover
that it indeed does not exist. Everything I was witnessing was the result
of a botched 5.14 install. Alas, shamed on my debut message. Sorry to post
a non-question.
Thanks,
Zach
On Dec 5, 2007 2:02 PM, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) <raymond.toy at ericsson.com>
wrote:
> Zach wrote:
> > I use straight Lisp for a lot of things and Maxima for a few. I have
> > Maxima running on top of SBCL 1.0.9. I tend to load some common
> > language extensions upon startup (these I placed in my .sbclrc file).
> > This creates problems. When Maxima is started, it reads in this
> > initialization and gets crippled somehow. So I changed the maxima
> > startup script to include the option --no-userinit when it starts SBCL,
> > which works for now. Of course in my attempt to install the new version
> > of Maxima, I had to edit the startup script again.
>
> It would probably help a lot if you described what you're trying to do
> and how it (or maxima?) gets crippled.
>
> Ray
>